Stars, I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky.
The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault;
It rains into the sea,
And still the sea is salt.

A few random poems:
- Огюст Барбье – Прогресс
- Verses
- Commerce by Satish Verma
- Heredity by Tony Harrison
- A Code of Morals by Rudyard Kipling
- An Excursion Steamer Sunk in the Tay by William Topaz McGonagall
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Dr. Blacklock: Ellisland, 21st Oct., 1789
- An ode to you by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Sonnet CXXXIX by William Shakespeare
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- Death Of Captain Cooke, by William Lisle Bowles
- Fate Knows No Tears
- on our conditioning by Raj Arumugam
- Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour. by Walt Whitman
- A Last Confession by William Butler Yeats
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works